Following a letter sent by the GAC to the ICANN Board (the NGPC in fact) on 9 September 2013 where no consensus was found on additional specific safeguards (protection of wine GIs), the ICANN Board had to “decide” about what to do regarding .WINE and .VIN new gTLD application: would they allow to proceed or …
It’s late in the new gTLD day and the program looks to be inching ever closer to the finish line. Yet last minute hiccups seem to be a recurring theme for this ambitious project to expand the Internet namespace far beyond the 300 odd active TLDs in existence today (counting generics and country codes). A …
“African government delegates were finally complaining they were coerced into ‘AU position’ and stating that they have no reason to object to DCA or a competitive bid for Africa”. DotConnectAfrica has emerged as the first firm to show interest of the project dotAfrica (.africa). . This was explicitly reported to the delegates attending the AfriSIG …
During ICANN Durban, I attended the Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) 10 year anniversary celebrations. ICANN Chairman, Dr Steve Crocker, was on hand to congratulate the ccNSO on their 10 years and revered them as the “true multi-stakeholders in ICANN”. Post Durban, I was reviewing notes and I came across a similar statement made …
DotConnectAfrica the embattled applicant of .africa gTLD string has gone full circle with the treatment of its application by the institution that is in custody of the global naming system and the internet. ICANN opened up the application round for the new gTLDs early January 2012 in a process that is currently through with the …
Verisign is just not going to let the issue of the risks to the Domain Name System caused by the new gTLD program go. The company that operates .COM has already raised numerous concerns on technical issues such as name collisions. Recently, it has also stepped up its “new gTLD warning campaign” with claims …
With 2,511 votes cast 25% of all voters said they planned to buy a new gTLD domain name although only 3% said they were on any sort of pre-registration list. 25% Planning to buy one 3% Already on the pre-registration list 29% Never heard of them 42% Not interested Considering the fact that there are …
An African internet showdown that has refused to end is looking once again. According to DotConnectAfrica, the Company bidding for .africa alongside the embattled Uniforum ZACR, DotConnectAfrica whose application was flagged as “incomplete” due to the fact that it did not go to the Geographic Review Panel, despite passing highly all the other panels has …
12 September 2013 The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on 10 September 2013 and, among other things, reached a decision regarding the GAC‘s further advice on new gTLDs. The GAC conveyed its advice to the NGPC in its Durban Communiqué [PDF, 103 KB], issued on 18 July 2013. Applicants submitted responses to …
Back on February 4, 2013, I wrote a CircleID post entitled, ‘How the registrar Cash Flow Model Could Collapse with New ICANN gTLDs.’ My key point back then was this: new gTLD applicants need to be mindful of how the cash flow policies of their registry (and of their back-end service provider) could impact whether …